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Name the conservative that has the profile to win a Senate election in NY right now. I don’t think there is any. We need to fix that by 2016, but right now it would be better to have a Pataki than a Gillibrand in the Senate.

I don’t see any reason to think that Pataki is as liberal as Kirk, Castle or Specter (much less Lincoln Chafee). He’s like Lazio, or Scott Brown.

The way to take influence away from Snowe et al is to elect 51 conservatives to the Senate. I fail to see how having Gillibrand keep the NY seat will help us do that, just as having Coakley beat Brown would not have helped us either.

24 posted on 03/12/2010 8:06:02 AM PST by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll protect your rights?)

Dan Senor will not be running for Gillibrand’s Senate seat:

http://mobile.twitter.com/BreakingNews/status/10986563855

I hope this meanst that Pataki will be jumping in soon. I also hope that by the time that Schumer is up again in 2016 we’ll have more of a farm team of conservatives in NY with the profile to run for the Senate.

25 posted on 03/24/2010 10:38:18 AM PDT by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll protect your rights?)